Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.
There are an enormous number of departments and/or branches involved with Public Works. I see a few of them here, in particular, project requirements, procurement strategies, solicitations, contract approval awards, contract payments. There seems to be a never-ending.... There are a lot of responsibilities. Yet in the investigation of the sponsorship scandal by the Auditor General, it was noted that all these responsibilities for all these departments were rolled under one position. In other words, instead of having a number of steps and a number of people responsible for decisions, they were all rolled under one, which was the director of communications services branch.
I'm wondering how this was allowed to happen. Instead of having all these checks and balances by so many people, along with all the different departments, it was rolled into one person and/or one department's responsibility to override all the other responsibilities from all the other departments. So I'd like to know how that happened and who the executive director of the communications coordination system was at that time.